SETatWork Training for EU ETS Companies

SETatWork has an emphasis on helping to improve energy efficiency in companies covered by the European Union Emission Trading scheme.

One of the key activities related to this is the training of EU ETS companies. In order to help us identify the training needs of the relevant industries, in November 2008 we created an online Training Needs Assessment questionnaire.

On the basis of the results from the questionnaire, Training Packages are in the process of being created and handouts will be added to this page as they become available. The Training Package Slide Sets are available from your national SETatWork Partner on request and were used during the SETatWork Training Workshops.

This training workshop was organised by Sofia Energy Centre, Bulgaria as a Parallel Session at the 6th National Congress and Exhibition on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources for South-East Europe.

Organisers:
SETatWork and Dansk Gartneri (Danish Horticulturers)
Scope: Using EU-allowances and an asset in cash flow management; Access to project based carbon credits in Danish Horticultures

Target Audience: ETS members of Danish Horticulturers

Highlights: Compared to current compliance practices, members of Danish Horticultures may profit from additional savings of 240% by introducing a direct engagement with CDM projects as an alternative to trading CERs on the secondary market via Nordpool or European Climate Exchange through agents.

A Danish training event on Energy Management Systems took place on 15 December 2009. The training was a joint event with www.greennetwork.dk

A topic of great interest throughout European industry is the recently launched standard for certified energy management systems EN16001. The standard is the first of two outlining the framework for working systematically with energy improvements within an organisation (ISO50001 is scheduled to follow in 2011).

A training event on Energy Management Systems took place in December during the COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Though Danish ETS member organisations have worked with certified energy management systems since the launch of the national Danish Standard in 2001, the event revealed a significant interest in the new framework from both ETS and non-ETS members.

Designed to fit into the design of the most recognized system for the management systems, as ISO14001 or ISO9001, the new framework for energy management systems may be introduced to most manufacturing organisations with limited costs. In turn, integrating a lean and efficient system for controlling energy costs and reducing consumption with existing systems in place is a profitable business.

The business case is attractive and relevant both for ETS members experiencing the future challenge for compliance as well as for any other industry that seeks a practical tool to keep on track for managing emissions and operating costs.

At the end of February 2010, a SETatWork training workshop, organised by KEWOG Städtebau GmbH in cooperation with KfW Bankengruppe, took place in Frankfurt. The workshop aimed at informing ETS companies about EU energy policies and latest developments in the carbon market on the one hand and at showing best practice of energy saving energy management systems and technologies on the other hand.

In the morning session, the Copenhagen Accord as well as the amended EU Emissions Trading Directive were analysed and discussed. In the afternoon session experts gave insights into innovative energy processes and technologies like heat recovery, combined heat and power, energy management systems and reduction potential of compressed air leakages.

The workshop was well attended by around 50 participants and provided the ETS industry a platform to learn and discuss about carbon markets as well as about innovative energy efficient technologies in industrial processes.

The pilot training course on energy efficiency measures for German ETS industries on 9th July in Munich, Germany was organized by KEWOG Städtebau GmbH, Unit ZREU and Co2ncept plus and supported by FutureCamp as part of the Bavarian Climate Week.

The main topics were:

Overview of Carbon markets with focus on post 2012,

Carbon makets as financial factor for the company,

Energy Management Systems ( EMS ),

Energy Efficiency and Technologies,

Good Practice Examples:

Absorption Chillers in a Brewery

Heat Recovery in the Brick Industry

The participants came from different industries with a mix of technical and management responsibilities, as well as emission trading and energy efficiency experts. The different backgrounds of the participants lead to excited discussions and bilateral talks with possible project opportunities and good practices.

With the experience of this successful training event, the schedule for the second course in Germany with similar topics is already fixed for February 2010 (see above).

Organiser: Kyoto Club (non-profit Italian organization involved in reaching the greenhouse gases reduction targets set by the Kyoto Protocol) with the support of the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Municipality of Rome.

Scope: To give an overview of the SETatWork project to a targeted audience.
To show the networking opportunities offered by the project.
To present an updated picture on the EU ETS.

Target Audience:

networkers central to the climate change business

energy companies

politicians and regulators

investors and emission traders

The event, supported by the Italian Minister of the Environment and the Municipality of Rome, was a relevant opportunity to discuss about different scenarios that countries may wish to consider for a post-2012 framework to tackle climate change after the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen.

how to handle the complex issues of CO2 management in the framework of the Kyoto flexible mechanisms

Target Audience:

Italian ETS industries

Ceramic industries

Energy managers

Plant managers

Energy services companies

The training event has been jointly arranged in the framework of a workshop organized within the EU project CERAMIN - Energy saving concepts for the European ceramic industry.

The CERAMIN workshop has been a very useful possibility for the SETatWork training purposes because it has been possible to reach targeted ETS industries and it has represented a basis to help selected industries to handle the complex issues of energy and CO2 management in the framework of the Kyoto flexible mechanisms and to establish subsequent promotional events.

Topic: Polish conference on the issues of energy supply from the point of view of supplier and recipient.

Target audience: The target companies are from the energy industry and electricity heating and those interested in energy investments and corporate recipients and representatives of local self-government.

Highlights:

Tools to promote environmentally friendly energy

Prospects for the development of EU climate policy, and Polish and their impact on businesses - Ecofys Poland

Modern financial instruments for energy

Wind power plants - Planning and execution of the investment

Barriers to market development

Bioenergies biogas - technical and economic aspects in the context of benefits to

Technical and procedural aspects for grid connection of renewable sources and cogeneration of electricity

Latest technologies in support of production and distribution of energy

Background: The Training event will be held together with a Matchmaking event within International scientific event Power Engineering 2010 (ENERGETIKA 2010) which includes three international scientific conferences: Energy - Ecology - Economy 2010, Control of Power Systems 2010, Renewable Energy Sources 2010

Background: Energy efficiency in heavy industrial branches still has considerable potential for improvement, caused mainly by insufficient degree of cogeneration and still high GHG emissions load. The Training Workshop will introduce the possibilities and advantages of Certified Energy Management Systems in these industries.

Presentations from this event can be found in Slovak in the Training Packages section on this page.

Scope: Energy efficiency in industies, measurments, auditing and Climate control through flexible mechanism

Target Audience: As part of industrial network activity called "Energy Smart Business" within the three Swedish municipalities Mariestad, Töreboda and Gullspång (MTG) KanEnergi has, through the SET@Work project hold presentations on energy efficiency in the industry and buildings as well as the Kyotoprotocoll and its flexible mechanisms.

The network activity is a result of the municipal energy advisors work in supporting local energy efficiency and use of enewables.
Industries and other company’s located in the municpalities were invited to participate in this network activity which is a combination of seminars, training and advisory. All activities are made on site on different industries.
In total 28 participants from 21 fifferent organisations participated. The companies got training in energy auditing and identification of measures. On the last meeting each company presented an action plan for future work and measures on energy efficiency.

The overall ambition of the meeting was to give the municipal energy and climate advisors in west Sweden an understanding of how industries work with energy efficiency measures both technically and economically and thereby give them more communication tools in their meetings with small and mediumsized companies. SETatWork was presented as one of the "tools" that companies can utilize in their work with energy efficiency and reduction of climate impact.

The results of the training needs analysis will reveal the specific topics to be included in the final training programme and will be targetted towards the following industries:

Cement Industry

Ceramics, Glass or Brick Industry

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries

Food Processing Industries

Mining

Paper and Pulp Industries

Power and Heat Generation

Offshore Industries

Refineries

Steel and Iron Industries

The broad range of countries represented through the project partners and the commitment from industrial associations will ensure the communication of training activities offered by the project will reach the industrial stakeholders and target group. The training will take place in 2009 and 2010 in the following countries:

Bulgaria

Denmark

Germany

Italy

Poland

Portugal

Slovakia/Czech Republic

Sweden

The scope of the training will comprise both the technical aspects and management components, and efforts will be put into the design of training components, interfacing with management systems already in place in the industries. The training material will making use of available industrial studies, sector-based benchmarking, resources available from previously funded EU projects and other sources.

More than three thousands organizations throughout the EU were invited to participate in the SETatWork training needs survey on practical aspects of Climate Change within industry. Results of the Assessment can be found in a news item on this site.

The results from the assessment have been combined with information gained during other SETatWork assessment activities in order to create Profiles for each country and to identify national priorities for SETatWork. The results can be viewed on the SETatWork Country Profiles page of this site.